ABSTRACT
Harold Lass well wrote in 1930 and stuck by in 1960: “Political science without biography is a form of taxidermy”. In the Psychopathology he had probed deeply into the microbehavior of individuals, but there remained the problem of how such knowledge cold be made relevant to an explanation of social entities. Insight into societal behavior at the level of the individual may be a necessary condition for explanation of social phenomena, but it is not a sufficient condition. All in all, what Lass well primarily offers this modest enterprise is an understanding of the political science-individual psychology relationship as a levels of analysis challenge and opportunity. The application of psychoanalytic concepts directly to organizations is potentially quite important for theory development. As the more conventional organization theory has long recognized, organization is very much the mystery of a structural context shaping and yet consisting of individual behavior pressed into abstract forms.
